Here's what one of the Goldman Sachs letters looked like:
To my eye, there's nothing at all similar between these letters and the anthrax letters. This is the writing of someone who routinely and comfortably writes that way. He punctuates normally. (The anthrax mailer didn't have any punctuation is the media letters.)
The handwriting is TOTALLY different. This is clearly the writing of an adult.
Au contraire !
The “Daschle Letter” was properly-(if “robotically”) punctuated-AND-there are similarities between it and the writing on your specimens.
(Other than the envelope, of course.)
Did you note the stamp used.
My eyesight is not the best, but it appears to be the Liberty Bell and there are odd terrorist type incidents and threats that are in that area.
I was once a stamp collector and choose the stamp to fit in with the intent of my envelope.
Many years ago, it was common to do so, that is why we have Christmas, Love, etc style stamps.
Interesting that these show all ‘they’ fight against:
Looking at the handwriting, Gene, I definitely don’t think they were written by the same person.
In terms of the content of the anthrax letters, just before the 1998 embassy bombings, Zawahiri and his Vanguards of Conquest had said that the rendering of the senior EIJ leaders would be answered “language you can understand.” Before the military tribunal, in March 2007, KSM talked of the language of war — deaths. “Same language you use, I use. That is why the language of any war in the world is killing.” Here, the lethal letters were plainly worded. The letter postmarked September 18, 2001 read:
“09-11-01
THIS IS NEXT
TAKE PENACILIN NOW
DEATH TO AMERICA
DEATH TO ISRAEL
ALLAH IS GREAT.”
From the streets of Cairo to Tehran to Jakarta, on historic anniversaries (such as Jerusalem Day in Iran, the day the Israeli state was created) protesters have gathered on the streets and shouted “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel.” For the talking heads to profile it as a non-Islamist awkwardly trying to sound muslim is odd. It is in fact the common protest slogan. What surer way to avoid giving away clues than to use common short phrases or short sentences using common words. Egyptians such as Islamic Group leader and soft-spoken accountant, Taha — and Egyptian Islamic Jihad #2 Shehata and Shawqi Islambuli, brother of Sadat’s assassin — may very well watched these protesters shouting these very chants while living in Iran after 9/11 before being captured.
The next month, the letter arriving one Friday afternoon at Senator Daschle’s office at Room 509 of the Hart Office Building had garnered little notice. It was routed up to the sixth-floor mailroom. No one opened the letter that afternoon. They were all at a talk on the threat of biochemical attacks sent through the mail. On Monday morning, however, intern found the innocuous looking letter, postmarked Oct. 9, 2001, at the top of a pile of a stack of mail waiting to be opened. The intern made a slight cut and immediately a small amount of powder spilled out on her skirt, shoes and the floor, as well as an intern standing next to her. She froze. The Capitol Hill officers arriving at the scene opened the letter and read it aloud:
“09-11-01
YOU CAN NOT STOP US.
WE HAVE THIS ANTHRAX.
YOU DIE NOW.
ARE YOU AFRAID?
DEATH TO AMERICA.
DEATH TO ISRAEL.
ALLAH IS GREAT.”
Among the piles of papers of documents relating to anthrax in a house associated with a Pakistan charity was a drawing of a jet shooting down a balloon. (There were 10 copies each as if a seminar or brainstorming session was being conducted). The words “You are dead, bang.” Although some pundits argued that “You die now” in the anthrax letters does not sound like a militant islamist, the physical evidence relating to Al Qaeda’s anthrax planning suggests otherwise. “WE HAVE THIS ANTHRAX” was starkly threatening, just like Atta’s “We have some planes” to the passengers of AA Flight 11 over the intercom.